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Medium · 6.6 CVE-2023-4996 EUVD-2023-54826GHSA-ccf8-r983-v699

Local privilege escalation

Published Nov 6, 2023 · Updated Sep 5, 2024 · Assigned by Netskope

Description

Netskope was made aware of a security vulnerability in its NSClient product for version 100 & prior where a malicious non-admin user can disable the Netskope client by using a specially-crafted package. The root cause of the problem was a user control code when called by a Windows ServiceController did not validate the permissions associated with the user before executing the user control code. This user control code had permissions to terminate the NSClient service. 

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Netskope Netskope Client 100 & prior —

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